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China’s business confidence index drops to 41.7 %: poll
23 Dec 2011
China’s business confidence index fell in the fourth quarter, the second consecutive drop, amid growing concern over rising costs and an economic slowdown
Spain’s borrowing costs fall to less than half
20 Dec 2011
New US bill targets call centre jobs overseas
20 Dec 2011
UK Chancellor to back banking shake-up
19 Dec 2011
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Russia gains WTO membership
17 Dec 2011
Russia is the last major world economy to join the WTO and its membership would see over 97 per cent of all world trade take place among member countries
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Village in China fights back forced land acquisition
17 Dec 2011
Wukan's villagers put up a stiff resistance battling authorities with rocks and sharpened bamboos to prevent forcible land acquisition for a luxury housing project
Russia to back India’s UN ambitions
16 Dec 2011
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IMF chief warns of crisis escalating globally
16 Dec 2011
Sounding a grim warning, Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF said that the global economy faced the prospect of "what happened in the 30s"
Former Russian speaker to step down from Duma
15 Dec 2011
Merkel pushes for greater budget discipline
15 Dec 2011
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China imposes additional duties on US cars
15 Dec 2011
The new anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs that work up to nearly 22 per cent of the import prices, is a tit for tat move against US duties on cheap Chinese tyres
Canada pulls out of Kyoto Protocol
13 Dec 2011
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